It’s been nearly 4 years since The Dreamcast Junkyard final attended a dwell gaming occasion, and that’s undoubtedly 4 years too many. It was again in 2018 that we attended Play Expo Blackpool and frolicked with these pretty chaps Adam Koralik and Dan ‘DJ Slope‘ Ibbertson; and to be trustworthy it looks as if a lifetime in the past. This is ready to be rectified in December 2022 when The Dreamcast Junkyard attends Nottingham Video Games Expo in…erm…Nottingham, UK.

Adam was impressed with Kev’s handmade T-shirt.

Taking place over the weekend of seventeenth & 18th December (which can also be the weekend of the 2022 World Cup ultimate, footy followers) on the Richard Herrod Centre, NottsVGE is a reasonably intimate occasion however one which is bristling with the cream of the UK gaming scene. Amongst the confirmed attendees are WAVE Game Studios, SEGA Powered, gamesreup_, It’s Much More, SEGA Mags, Rare, and The Retro Hour and lots of others too; alongside an entire host of particular friends and merchants promoting gaming gear. There’s additionally a bar. Important element, that.

Tried to make this lot look as horny as doable.

Alas, this factor was a misplaced trigger.

As talked about, a number of of the Junkyard’s podcast and editorial crew can be there manning our devoted stand (the place you’ll be able to play some Dreamcast video games or simply typically loiter and chat if you happen to so want), and we have teamed up with these pretty of us at Bitmap Bureau to run a fairly cool little competitors. 

The guidelines are easy: play a recreation of the superb Xeno Crisis and report your highest doable rating utilizing the Dreamcast Twin Stick controller. If you place among the many high scorers on the day, you may bag an superior prize! We have Xeno Crisis T-shirts and 6 copies of the sport to present away on a number of codecs (Mega Drive, Dreamcast and Neo-Geo CD), in addition to a duplicate of the Xeno Crisis OST and a wad of Xeno Crisis promotional postcards.

If you are not acquainted with Xeno Crisis, we reviewed it right here on the Junkyard upon launch for the Dreamcast in 2020, and Mike Phelan was fairly impressed with what the sci-fi themed top-down shooter needed to provide:

“I’ll be taking part in Xeno Crisis for a while, and I sit up for each re-entry into that damned colony and it is ugly denizens…Because it is enjoyable. Bloody, foolish, thrilling enjoyable. And that, actually, is the best praise I pays any recreation. Indie Dreamcast builders – a brand new challenger has arrived within the area, and it is right here to point out you the way it’s performed.“

Big due to Mike Tucker at Bitmap Bureau for supplying these prizes. If you have not bought your tickets already, head over to the NottsVGE web site or give the occasion a observe on Twitter. 

We’re solely in attendance on Saturday seventeenth December so if you wish to be in with an opportunity of both assembly Kev and seeing/touching/sniffing his superb bootleg T-shirt, or bagging one in all our Xeno Crisis prizes, then what to do. We sit up for seeing you there!